Posts Tagged ‘resign’

We don’t like MPs. They are, we assure one another, a bunch of unemployable layabouts, guzzling at the teat of public funds. Read the letters pages, listen to the phone-ins, follow the comment threa...
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Four years ago, when I drew attention to the poor performance of Britain's healthcare system relative to other industrialised states, Andy Burnham, then Health Secretary, called me "unpatriotic". He w...
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I have a feeling that the market in Denis MacShane anecdotes has peaked, so I’m going to offload some stock. A few years ago, I was skiing with some Swiss and British MPs, including the Euro-fanatic...
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I find it incomprehensible that Brian Cowen is carrying on as Prime Minister of Ireland. He has been the most calamitous Taoiseach since the foundation of the state, and his countrymen can see it: his...
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It's not chiefly about Europe – it's about democracy. Regular readers will know that I have always seen the repatriation of jurisdiction from Brussels as a means to an end. Having got the powers...
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